Meet the Editors

Meet the editors of an outstanding journal

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry is published under the leadership of an international team of eminent analytical scientists. Meet the ABC Editors by reading their biographical portraits below.

Antje J. Baeumner

Antje Baeumner is the Director of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Chemo- and Biosensors at the University of Regensburg. Prior to returning to Germany, she was Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Dept. of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA. Her research is focused on the development of biosensors and microTotal Analysis Systems for the detection of pathogens and toxins in food, the environment and for clinical diagnostics. Her research includes the development of novel nanomaterials such as liposomes, nanofibers and nanoparticles, microfluidic biosensors, sample preparation strategies, and point-of-care devices. She has published over 105 papers in high ranking analytical journals, has been awarded 7 patents and has received funding of over 7 million US$ supporting her own research activities. She has chaired the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Bioanalytical Sensors in 2010 and is elected co-chair for the GRC on Nanoscale Science and Engineering for Agricultural and Food Systems in 2020. She has also organized and chaired the international biosensor conference BBMEC in 2001 and 2015. She has received numerous awards for her research including being a finalist of the Blavatnik Award, senior fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, Mercator Professor of the German Science Foundation and numerous teaching awards. She is the president of the International Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry since June 2018.

Hua Cui

Hua Cui is full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at University of Science and Technology of China, China. She received her Ph.D. from University of Science and Technology of China in 1990. She was appointed as a lecturer in 1990, as an associate professor in 1995 and as a professor & head in 2000 in Analytical Division, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China. During the time, she also conducted some research work as a postdoctoral at Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, Utrecht University. She received the Award for The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars from The National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2006, Liang Shuquan Award for Basic Research in Analytical Chemistry from Chinese Chemical Society in 2012, Award for 4nd Ten Outstanding Women Award from The Chinese Academy of Science in 2013 and Outstanding Women Analytical Chemist Award from Analytical Chemistry Division of Chinese Chemical Society in 2015. In 2014, she was appointed as a Member of the Council of the International Society of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence for the period 2015-2016.

Dr Cui’s research interests are analytical chemiluminescence (CL) and electrochemiluminescence (ECL), and their applications in interdisciplinary fields including public health, food safety, and environmental monitoring. Over the past 20 years, great progress has been made by her research group to develop new CL/ECL-based analytical concept and principle and to better understand these analytical methods. Her group has developed a potential-resolved ECL method that has become an effective tool for studying ECL mechanisms. Her group has pioneered the study of metal nanoparticle-initiated CL and ECL, and developed direct strategies for the preparation of a variety of CL/ECL functionalized nanomaterials and ultrasensitive CL/ECL methods for bioassays. Very recently, ground breaking progress has been made in CL reagent/catalyst bifunctionalized nanomaterials, which enabled unique and superior catalytic activity for the catalysts grafted on the surface of CL/ECL functional nanomaterials. These results have provided novel strategies to address fundamental challenges of CL and ECL as powerful analytical and bioanalytical methods. Moreover, Dr. Cui has authored and co-authored over 140 publications on reputed international journals and 1 international patent and 3 China patents on CL/ECL functionalized nanomaterials and their applications in bioassays; She has been invited to deliver plenary lectures at international conferences on chemiluminescence and electrochemiluminescence.

Philippe Garrigues

Philippe Garrigues is a CNRS Research Director and Head of the Department of Molecular Sciences (CRCM, FR 1981 CNRS) at the University of Bordeaux 1, France, with around 200 researchers involved in various chemistry disciplines (theory, analyses, environment, spectroscopy, synthesis). He received his degree in Chemical Engineering at the University Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg) in 1978 and his Ph.D. degree in 1985 in Physical Chemistry at the University of Bordeaux I. He also received a degree in Marine Ecology and Biology in 1979.

Dr. Garrigues’s personal research interests are the analytical aspects (chromatography and spectroscopy) related to the detection of organic pollutants as well as their environmental fate and toxicological effects. Recently, he has been involved in the development of biochemical markers as early warning systems for the toxicological evaluation of ecosystems through the coordination of large research projects (i.e. BIOMAR, BEEP) supported by DG Research (European Commission, Brussels).

Dr. Garrigues has authored about 180 publications. Presently he is Chairman of the Division "Chemistry in the Environment" (DCE) of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS). He has also organized various congresses dealing with environmental chemistry, most of them related to scientific societies (SETAC, ISPAC, EuCheMS).

Günter Gauglitz

Günter Gauglitz is Professor at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, Germany, since 1987. He received his M.S. in 1966, at the State University of Iowa, and his Ph.D. degree in 1972, at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

For the past fifteen years, Dr. Gauglitz’s main scientific interest has centered on research and development in the area of chemical and biochemical sensors. Special focus is given to the characterization of interfaces of polymers and biomembranes by surface spectroscopic techniques, application of spectral interferometry to monitor changes in optical thickness of thin layers and effects of Fresnel reflectivity at interfaces. Further projects focused on examination of swelling effects of silicon polymers by taking up hydrocarbons, application of integrated optical devices to chemical and biochemical sensing, and model calculations for evanescent field theory and multilayer systems. His research interests also include direct and indirect optical affinity sensors and immunoprobes, DNA/DNA and protein-interactions, surface modification and characterization for affinity sensors, nanoparticles, new recognition elements, development in high-throughput screening, microfluidic set-ups, dynamic multivariate data analysis in kinetics expanded and in multi sensor arrays, factor analysis, partial least squares techniques, and application of neuronal nets to chemometrics.

He has authored 15 patents on actinometry, integrated optics, and interferometry sensing, and more than 250 publications, including review articles on actinometry, photochemical and photophysical principles of photochromic systems, fundamentals of UV/Vis spectroscopy and optical sensing principles. He is the author of books on "Practice in UV/Vis spectroscopy", "Theory and practice in photokinetics", "Photochemical principles of photoresists for circuit boards" and is the Editor of the “Handbook of Spectroscopy”. He organized several national and international congresses, held more than 40 spectroscopy, analytics and pharmakokinetics courses for industry, as well as invited lectures and presentations at national and international meetings. In 1997, he received the Wallac Award of the Society of Biomolecular Screening for his research in fluorescent high-throughput screening. In 2006 he received the Pregl Award by the Austrian Analytical Society, in 2012 the Carl-Duisberg Award by the GDCh and in 2014 the Clemens-Winkler-Award by the Division of Analytical Chemistry/GDCh. Among his many offices, he is a titular member of the IUPAC commission V.4, secretary member of IUPAC, and German representative of COMETT II Eurochemometrics. Dr. Gauglitz is a member of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) board and 2004-2008 he was chair of the GDCh Division of Analytical Chemistry.

Gérard Hopfgartner

Gérard Hopfgartner is currently Professor for Analytical Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry in the Department of Analytical and Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland. Gérard Hopfgartner studied chemistry at the University of Geneva and received his Ph.D. degree in 1991 in the field of organic geochemistry and mass spectrometry. After his postdoctoral stay at Cornell University, he joined F.Hoffmann-La Roche in Basel, Switzerland, where he worked for ten years on the application of LC-MS in drug discovery and development. In 2002, he moved to the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Geneva and Lausanne where he was Professor for Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry from 2002 to 2015.

His research interests focus around the application and the development of novel hyphenated mass spectrometry approaches in the field of life sciences from elements to proteins. His current research efforts includes: separation sciences, sample preparation, bioanalysis, drug metabolism, metabolomics, analytical proteomics, toxicology, high resolution mass spectrometry, ion mobility mass spectrometry and mass spectrometry imaging.

Luigi Mondello

Luigi Mondello is Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Messina, Italy. He is the author of about 465 publications (research articles, book chapters, and reviews) and 1072 conference presentations (of which 184 invited/plenary lectures). His research interests include high-resolution chromatography techniques (HRGC, HPLC, HRGC-MS, HPLC-MS, OPLC) and the development of hyphenated (LC-GC-MS, GC-GC) and multidimensional “comprehensive” (GC×GC, LC×LC) techniques and their applications to the study of natural complex matrices.

Prof. Mondello has been member of the organizing committees of national and international meetings and he is permanent member of the scientific committee of the “International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography” (ISCC), of the “International Symposium on Essential Oils” (ISEO), of the “International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography and Hyphenated Chromatographic Analyzers” (HTC), of the “Brazilian Symposium on Chromatography and Related Techniques” (SIMCRO), of the “Congresso Latino-Americano de Cromatografia e Técnicas Relacionades” (COLACRO).

Prof. Mondello is President of the Steering Committee of the Italian Separation Science Group of the Italian Chemical Society, Editor in Chief of the “Journal of Essential Oil Research” (Taylor & Francis), Editor of Food Analytical.

In February 2006 he was awarded with the “HTC-Award for the most outstanding and innovative work in the field of hyphenated chromatographic techniques. In May 2008 he was awarded with the “Silver Jubilee Medal”. In October 2008 he received the COLACRO Medal. In September 2012 he was awarded with the “Liberti Medal”. He has been awarded in “The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards (TASIAs 2013 and 2015, 2016). In September 2014 he has been the recipient of the IFEAT Medal. In September 2017 he was the recipient of the “Robert Kellner Lecture Award” He is present in the list of the “Top Italian Scientist (via-Academy) with a relative position of 56 on about 4170 scientists with h-Index of 56. The Analytical Scientist Journal has included his name in the “Power List” among the top 100 most influential people in the analytical sciences 2013 and 2015). In November 2017 The Analytical Scientist Journal has included him in one of the top ten worldwide scientist in the field of Separation Science.

Maria Cruz Moreno-Bondi

Maria Cruz Moreno-Bondi is Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain, since 2008. She received her Ph.D. from the same University in 1990, under the auspices of Prof. Carmen Cámara. She got tenure at the Department of Analytical Chemistry at UCM in 1991 as Ass. Prof. She has carried out research stages, as visiting professor, at Columbia University (New York), the Oak Ridge National Lab (Tennessee, USA), and the Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, USA), focusing on the development of luminescence-based analytical methods, optical fiber chemical sensors and microarrays for environmental, food and clinical applications.

In 2014 she became Head of the Analytical Chemistry Department at the UCM Faculty of Chemistry. She is President of the Spanish Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SEA) since 2012. Prof. Moreno-Bondi serves as a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Springer Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry and ACS Omega Journals.

She has authored over 110 peer-reviewed papers, edited 3 books and is co-inventor of 11 patents on optical sensors and molecularly imprinted polymers. She has collaborated in the organization of several national and international conferences dealing with optical sensors, biosensors and molecularly imprinted polymers and their applications in Analytical Chemistry, some of them in collaboration with scientific societies. She was the recipient of the 1993 Young Researcher’s Award of the Spanish Society of Analytical Chemistry (SEQA) and the 2010 Research Award in Analytical Chemistry of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ).

Her current research interests lie in the development of luminescent optical sensors and biosensors, molecularly imprinted polymers, nanomaterials, phage display techniques, epitope-mimicking peptides, recombinant antibodies, and their applications to food, clinical and environmental analysis.

David C. Muddiman

David C. Muddiman is the Jacob and Betty Belin Distinguished Professor and Founder and Director of the W.M. Keck FTMS Laboratory for Human Health Research at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. Prior to moving his research group to North Carolina State University, David was a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Founder and Director of the Mayo Proteomics Research Center at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, MN. Prior to his appointment at the Mayo Clinic, David was an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University where he began his academic career as an assistant professor in 1997 with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics where he was also a member of the Massey Cancer Center. David was born in Long Beach, CA in 1967 but spent most of his formative years in a small town in Pennsylvania. David received his B.S. in chemistry from Gannon University (Erie, PA) in 1990 and his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh in 1995 under the auspices of David M. Hercules. He then was a Department of Energy Postdoctoral Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory working with Richard D. Smith from 1995-1997.

Dr. Muddiman is Editor of Analytical and Biological Chemistry as well as on the Editorial Advisory Board of Mass Spectrometry Reviews, Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, and the Journal of Chromatography B. He also serves on the advisory board of the NIH Funded Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia and the Yale/NIDA Neuroproteomics Center, Yale University. Dr. Muddiman is currently the President of the United States Human Proteome Organization (US-HUPO). His group has presented over 500 invited lectures and presentations at national and international meetings including 20 plenary/keynote lectures. His group has published over 225 peer-reviewed papers and has received four US patents. He is the recipient of the 2015 ACS Award in Chemical Instrumentation, 2010 Biemann Medal, American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2009 NCSU Alumni Outstanding Research Award, the 2004 ACS Arthur F. Findeis Award, the 1999 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research Award, and the 1990-91 Safford Award, University of Pittsburgh, for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Muddiman research directed at the development of innovative technologies, systems biology, and model organisms is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and The United States Department of Agriculture.

Stephen A. Wise

Dr. Stephen A. Wise retired in 2016 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland; he remains at NIST as a Guest Scientist. He is currently a Scientific Consultant for the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health (NIH-ODS) in Bethesda, Maryland. At NIH-ODS he supports the Dietary Supplement Analytical Methods and Reference Materials Program. He received a B.A. in Chemistry from Weber State University and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Arizona State University. He began his career at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), now NIST, in 1976 as a research chemist involved in the development of liquid chromatographic methods for determination of trace organic constituents. At NIST Dr. Wise’s research interests focused on: (1) development of chromato¬graphic methods for the determination of organic contaminants, e.g., polycyclic aromatic hydrocar¬bons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls, and chlorinated pesticides, in environmental matrices such as sediment, tissue, and air particulate matter; (2) development of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) for trace organic constituents in environmental, clinical, food, and dietary supplement matrices; (3) investigations of chromatographic separation mechanisms and chromatographic selectivity for PAHs and related compounds; (4) development and implementation environmental specimen banking procedures; and (5) quality assurance of chemical measurements. Dr. Wise has authored or coauthored over 325 publications in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and special publications.

In addition to serving as an Editor of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Dr. Wise is Topical Editor for Analytical Separation Techniques for Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, and on the Editorial Board of Accreditation and Quality Assurance. He served as Chair of the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (1996) and as President of the International Society of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (2003-2005). He received the 2001 Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Research Award of the International Society of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (ISPAC), the 2006 Harvey W. Wiley Award from AOAC International, the 2014 Reference Material Achievement Award from the Technical Division on Reference Materials of AOAC International, and the 2015 Hillebrand Award from the Chemical Society of Washington. In 2013 he was selected as a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. For his achievements at NIST, he was recognized with the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Award (1989) and Silver Medal Award (2008).

Adam T. Woolley

Adam T. Woolley is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah, USA. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Chemistry from BYU in 1992. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1997 from the University of California–Berkeley under the direction of Professor Richard Mathies. His doctoral research involved the development of micromachined electrophoretic systems for rapid DNA analysis, and his work was recognized with the 1998 Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Thesis Prize. Woolley was a Cancer Research Fund Runyon-Winchell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Professor Charles Lieber at Harvard University from 1998-2000. His postdoctoral work focused on implementing carbon nanotube probes for high-resolution biological scanning probe microscopy. After postdoctoral studies, Woolley joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at BYU. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006 and to Professor in 2010.

The overarching theme of Professor Woolley’s research is the interrelationship between biological molecules and miniaturization. His current research is concentrated in three general areas: the creation of novel and sophisticated integrated microfluidic systems for enhanced biomarker quantitation, the design of simple, miniaturized biomolecular assays, and biotemplated nanofabrication. His group is combining affinity purification and solid-phase enrichment with electrophoretic separation in miniaturized devices to enable biomarker quantitation. He is also working to develop easy-to-use micro- and nano-fluidic chips for molecular analysis. Finally, his group is developing ways to fold DNA into controlled nanoscale designs and convert these structures into functional nanomaterial systems through self-assembly and selective metallization.

Professor Woolley is author or co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, has given over 150 scientific presentations and has received 10 patents related to his work. He has received several recognitions, including the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Award for Young Investigators in Separation Science (2007), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2007), BYU Young Scholar Award (2008), BYU Reed M. Izatt and James J. Christensen Faculty Excellence in Research Award (2012), BYU Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award (2014), BYU University Professorship (2015) and the American Electrophoresis Society (AES) Mid Career Award (2015).

Lihua Zhang

Prof. Dr. Lihua Zhang, born on Sep. 25, 1973, obtained her Bachelor degree of Science from Department of Chemistry, Jilin University, in 1995. She pursued her Ph.D. study in National Chromatographic R. & A. Center, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) under the direction of Prof. Yukui Zhang, Member of CAS. During her graduate study, she was selected to join the scientific exchange program of DAAD, and spent one year in GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Germany, under the direction of Prof. Dr. A. Kettrup. In 2000, she obtained her Ph.D. degree from DICP, CAS. From 2001 to 2003, she carried out the postdoctoral research in Prof. Yoshinobu Baba’s group in Japan. In April 2003, she went back to work in DICP, CAS, as an associate professor. In 2004, she was selected to join “100 Talents Project” of CAS, and promoted to be a full professor in 2005. Now she is the group leader of Laboratory of “High efficient separation and high accuracy characterization of biomolecules” in DICP, CAS.

Prof. Dr. Lihua Zhang was selected as "Young and middle-aged leading scientists, engineers and innovators" of Ministry of Science and Technology (2012). She won the Second Prize of National Natural Science (rank second, 2012), First Prize of Natural Science in Liaoning Province (rank second, 2011; rank third, 2004), First Prize of China Association for Instrument Analysis (Rank second, 2006), Distinguished Lectureship Award from the Chemistry Society of Japan (2008) and Young Scientists Award from the Chinese Chemistry Society (2008). Furthermore, she was appointed the Regional Editor China for Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, A-page editor for Analytical Chemistry, Editorial board member for Proteomics, Scientific Report, and Chinese Journal of Chromatography.

Prof. Dr. Lihua Zhang’s research is focused on the new materials, methods and techniques for both qualitative and quantitative proteome analysis. She has hosted or participated in 20 scientific projects organized by National Natural Science Foundation, Ministry of Science and Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences. Up till now, she has published over 100 papers in journals indexed by SCI. She has been invited to give more than 10 presentations in international scientific conferences.

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Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry’s mission is the rapid publication of excellent and high-impact research articles on fundamental and applied topics of analytical and bioanalytical measurement science. Its scope is broad, and ranges from novel measurement platforms and their characterization to multidisciplinary approaches that effectively address important scientific problems.

analytical strategies in “-omics” and imaging, bioanalysis, and sampling;

miniaturized devices, medical diagnostics, sensors;

analytical characterization of nano- and biomaterials;

chemometrics and advanced data analysis.

Applications should clearly highlight the novelty of the contribution and be presented with fit-for-purpose validation metrics. If applicable, each contribution should be compared to existing methods and/or include analysis of real world samples.

The journal discourages submissions with limited analytical novelty or lacking a substantial impact on analytical and bioanalytical science. Papers that merely comprise data collections, based on the use of well-established analytical or bioanalytical methodologies, are also not acceptable. All submissions to the journal will be screened for plagiarism.

The journal publishes Critical Reviews and Trend Articles, Research Papers, and Communications. All papers are subject to a strict peer review. Guided by peer reviews, the Editors select a number of exceptional papers for accelerated publication as ‘Papers in Forefront’. Also published are ABC Spotlights and Feature Articles on selected topics as well as Letters to the Editor as a medium of discussion and exchange of opinions. Additional features are ABC’s general-interest columns geared to the practical needs of modern analytical scientists (e.g. Analytical Challenge, ABCs of Education and Professional Development in Analytical Science).

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry is a merger and also continuation of Fresenius' Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Analusis, Química Analítica, and Chemical Analysis/Chemia Analityczna.

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